Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-16
THE HOME vs.. THE SALOON.
The Third Lecture OF Richard T. Booth
1,442 Blue Ribbons.


1,442 Blue Ribbons.
The interest in the temperance meetings
started in the Metropolitan Theater Sunday
evening seems to be on the increase, and
that Thespian temple is crowded nightly to
listen to that world-renowned exponent OF
total abstinence, Richard T. Booth. Last
night, as on each of the preceding even
ings. the theater was crowded from pit to
dome,p and last evening it was quite no.
ticeable fact that large proportion OF those
| present were Young men. The choir of
| some 800 voices improve in their music
each evening, and is one of the most pleas
ing features of the evenings entertainment.
Services were opened by the reading OF the
tenth Psalm by the Rev. Thomas FIlben,
followed by a prayer by the Rev. J. L.
| Wheeler.
Rev. e. R. Ollie, in a few opening re-
marks, said these meetings promised much,
it was only the beginning of great moral
revolution in this city. What could be
more holy mission than that of rescuing
! fellow-men from this evil habit? Now is
the time he said, for those who had happy
| homes and bright-eyed children to put their
shoulder to the wheel and
REMOVE THE SHARES AND PITFALLS
That may destroy the happiness Of the first
and blast the hopes and ruin the life OF the
other viii you be the priest and the Lee
yite TO pass on the other side, or VIII you
act the part of the good Samaritan, and tell
them there is hope in God? Yet there are
young who will not wear the blue ribbon.
He may be all right yet. You who have
manageable daughters should see to 1t
that none such become your son-ln-laW.
~, . hQrd aRf w I
your part, for this tidal wave so auspi-
ciously started is going to roll through the
streets of Sacramento until the wicked
shall tremble. He Them introduced Mr..
Booth.
The lecturer stated that this evening he
would lecture on the subject The Comic
and Tragic Side of a Drunkard's Life" The
speaker said that he expected to see a
moral earthquake that is going to shake
the kingdom of sin in this city, ii we can
only shake some people so they can take
proper stand. He said already 1,250 blue
ribbons had been given out, and the work
was but Just begun. Applausel Doesn't
that tickle all the saloonists? Laughter
Of this number PIC were new signers to the
pledge. [Applause.] He said
EVERY YOUNG MAN AND EVERY OLD MAN
In the city should sign that pledge, and
would sign it when properly presented to
them by those whom they had reason to
believe were their friends. We must work
at it, we must talk it, we must agitate
it. we must show them the utility,
beauty and glory Of it, and all will
be reclaimed. If you don't see it
tonight it will not be my fault, but your
misfortune. He said every man, woman
and child who sympathized in this move
ment should show their sympathy by
wearing the blue ribbon. II was like the
measles-better when out where everybody
can see it. Gibbon,.. in his admirable his
tory of Rome, said at one time the slaves
greatly outnumbered all the other IN
habitants, and it was proposed to dress
them all alike. NO. said an eminent
statesman, this would never do. They
would then discover that they outnum
bered us that we were in the minority,
and our Government would not be safe for
an instant" If all the Christian people,
all the abstainers in this community,
would 90 upon the street wearing this most
honorable of all badges, they would know
their strength, they would feel their power,
and
THE RUM-sELLER WOULD TREMBLE
At the sight of it. Some Christians, some
abstainers, refused to wear the badge, yet
they assert that no man sympathizes more
deeply with this movement. Those kind
of people accomplish nothing in this
work; they would never bring about
reformation they have no more back
bone than Jelly fish. What host of re-
cruits we already have in this city ,250
abstainers what a magnificent army.
IApplause.1 We must meet often, talk
over matters, get into the swing of it, and
then hurl ourselves in a solid phalanx
against the enemies works.
The speaker in his lecture last evening
injected so many anecdotes that half the
time during his two hours lecture he had
the audience convulsed with laughter. He
is quite an actor, and tells q story so adj
mirably that even a chestnut in his
hands would pass for brand new story"
This movement twenty-five or thirty years
ago could not have been successful, for
public sentiment was then against it, and
the church did not then, as it does now,
throw about it the edicts of its holy in
huence.
THE HANDWRITING Is UPON THE WALL,
Good men the world over say the liquor
traffic can, must and shall be done away
with [Applause.] Some people. whose
sympathies are enlisted, say they do not
know where to begin. His answer to them
was that given by Sheridan TO a soldier at
the battle of Charlottesville, who asked
where he should begin fighting: "Why,
man, pitch in anywhere. 1t is lovely
| fighting all along the line Already the
| liquor-dealing politicians recognize in this
| blue-ribbon army a formidable force which
only requires organization to wrest from
them the power they so long have swayed
at the ballot-box. II is the hight of folly
to license an evil and then try to regulate
| it. Be polite to our enemies-don't call
them rumsellers, but liquor dealers. While
it means the same thing, still it robs it
somewhat of its harshness. Let us reclaim
them. If l could not win them by per-
suasion,
THEN WOULD I LOAD THE BALIoT-Box
With the votes of freemen and carry their
works. [Applause-l
The speaker paid fine compliment to
the educational system of America, and
paid a high tribute to the California Legis-
| fature for enacting a law compelling in
| structions in the public schools that will
tend to lessen this great evil, and pro-
nounced an eloquent eulogium on the noble
women of the w. c. T. o., who were in
! strumental in bringing about this result. 1t
places them IN the front rank OF the world S
| benefactors This is fight Of the home
against the saloon-a mothers love against
! the saloon keepers greed. It is fight Tor
| God, home and humanity. Sign the pledge
for your own sake in the first place, and in
the second place for the good it will do.
At the close of the meeting 1872 badges
were given out and 20 pledges signed. This
makes total for the three meetings of
! l. 42 blue ribbons and 2S6 pledges.
CIunie Opera House.
Boccaccio drew very large house
last night, and an enthusiastic one. Miss
Winston had part calling for versatile